An ent, it is a beast whose body is made of wood and it looks like one big tree with hands and legs decorated for Halloween right now Lucifer and all the recruits were in the middle of a forest filled with them
"So what do we do"
Lucifer asked
"We can't go on with the train so we will have to walk towards the nearest safe station located here that oversees this place, my name is John by the way"
The man with the severed arm whose name was John said
"I see oh well let's get all of them out of there and start our journey "
Lucifer said and went back on the train to pick up his stuff and call everyone to follow him
Just when he entered the train he heard the voice of the system
[Ding! The host has completed the mission please accept the rewards
Rewards 1) undead earth mage recipe
2)50 attribute points ]
"Nice! Status"
He said
[status
Name - Lucifer chrombel
Species - human
Titles - death lord
Level - 12
Hp - 340/500
Exp - 700/1200
Strength - 100
Agility - 100
Intelligence - 100
Stamina - 100
Vitality - 100
Attribute points - 100
Death tab
Skills
Shop
Quest]
"Wow now that is what I call an upgrade, ok I understand one thing for sure if the place I had fought these guys was an open place I would have lost as there were many of them so I need more numbers and I also have to travel for many days in this damned forest so I will have to protect some of them"
He said and continued
"Ok I have a lot of space to grow but I can overcome strength with skill so, add 20 points to strength 30 to agility, and 50 to intelligence "
[status
Name - Lucifer chrombel
Species - human
Titles - death lord
Level - 12
Hp - 340/500
Exp - 700/1200
Strength - 120
Agility - 130
Intelligence - 150
Stamina - 100
Vitality - 100
Attribute points - 0
Death tab
Skills
Shop
Quest]
"Ok equip two earth mages and two dark wolves"
[Equip
Shadow panther (×3)
Dark wolf(×5)
Fallen knight Lancelot(×1) {only one}
Undead Water mage(×2)
Undead Earth mage(×2)]
After checking his status and allocating his undead soldiers he gathered all the students and headed toward the safe station
After walking for thirty minutes they finally found their first ent, it was an intermediate beast
As one can expect Lucifer dispatched it very quickly
They then went on their merry way, but as they went deeper into the forest they saw more ents of course many of them took turns to dispatch it one should remember that they were admitted to quinter for a reason
At sunset they found a cave and set their camp there, the students took turns keeping watch
And after three days of this, they finally saw the safe station
"Finally we can relax"
One of the students exclaimed
But John looked grim, then all of a sudden Lucifer Spock to him
"I know what you are thinking, it's fishy isn't it, the beasts we met were all small fry, so the question is where did all the advanced ones go "
John was shocked and a little bit embarrassed to be found out by a kid, but he mustered up a smile and said
"You are something else, you know?
well I didn't expect anything less from an SS rank student, yeah you are right but we won't know till we get there "
They then continued, when they reached the station they stared at it with widened eyes it was half-destroyed and half still intact
"Who goes there!"
A guard patrolling screamed at them
"I am a transporter from quinter and these are the new students we were met with an accident can you open the gates we can explain "
The guard thought for a while then he contacted someone with his a phone he then said
"Fine you can come in but you the one who is the transporter need to explain the situation to our captain so follow me the rest can go take refuge in a building"
John was about to go with the guard when he tucked Lucifer's shirt and said to him
"You are coming with me I think that will be for the best "
Lucifer nodded and followed him when they were following the guard they saw that the safe station was just like a city with many buildings but it had a shape of a semi-circle and it had an outer circle and an inner circle the outer circle was not in that much of a bad shape but the inner circle was covered with plants and was barricaded
They entered the captain's tent and saw a man with a bald head, a black beard, and black eyes with black skin standing in front of them with a table between them
There was silence until the bald man spoke with a calm voice
"So you are the transporter and this is... Never mind, first explain your situation "
John started explaining what had happened and what Lucifer had done
The bald man was surprised and said
"not bad, I thought all the guys were bringing more snot-nosed brats again but I guess I was wrong my name is Leon by the way nice to meet you"
Lucifer then proceeded to ask
"If I may ask what happened here exactly, I don't believe the inner circle always looked like that and something tells me it's really really bad "
Leon said with a wry smile
"Well you see yesterday all of a sudden a giant tree emerged from the central building of the inner circle and entangled itself with it then more trees merged and many ents followed suit "
Lucifer couldn't help but ask
"Are there really that many strong beasts there"
Leon still with his wry smile answered
"It's not about numbers or strength, in fact, half of them are intermediate beasts whilst the other half are advanced beasts but you see a barrier formed around the inner circle and only people below martial king and the advanced mage can enter it, we don't have any of them "
Lucifer understood and nodded then he said
"It must have been those guys who attacked us, they must have kept this as a backup plan but why are they keeping us here? I am sure the school will send reinforcements and break the wall in time "
Leon then said
"It's because the big tree will explode before the reinforcements arrive and if we don't kill all the monsters before that we die "
Lucifer was shocked and said
"Let me go I will clear it "
All of them were shocked but Leon screamed
"No! I absolutely won't allow such a young talent to die like this! "
Lucifer then said
"Relax captain no one is dying and we don't have any other choice besides I have already got experience with a dungeon so it will be fine, it's either that or we go boom "
Leon and John were shocked to hear him, but no matter what they said he was right so after some deliberating the plan formed where Lucifer would infiltrate the inner circle and kill the beasts before they went boom.